So open minded that they saw no reason to teach their child love and tolerance? Yeah, right. Go ahead and believe that crap if that's what you need to rationalize the death of a 15 year-old victim of a gun crime. Children are taught to hate. They are taught intolerance. And these lessons are reinforced regularly. Rebelling against love and tolerance? My, what a dream world you live in. Teaching a child love and tolerance is hardly "progressive and open-minded" unless you just escaped your local KKK affiliate. Tool!
Okay calm down. What I meant was (and try not to start foaming at the mouth until you've read my full post), OF COURSE they tried to teach love and tolerance. I was speaking generally by using the terms "progressive and open-minded." Maybe the kid was just wired wrong and turned out to be a hateful little prick all on his own.
Secondly, I'm not rationalizing anything. I am in no way trying to say it is ok to kill someone (or harm them in any way) based on some sort of hate crime. But would you call it a hammer crime if the kid was killed with a hammer instead of a gun? "Gun" is just one of those buzz words that makes people fly off the handle and start yelling before they've thought things through. This is a horrible tragedy, but not because of the gun or because of the parents. It is horrible because one human being killed another as an act of malice and hatred.
You're the one living in the dream world, based on your above quoted post. You're the one who specifically mentioned love and tolerance and then spent the rest of your post trying to tell ME that i was against them. You even accused me of being deluded and living in a dream world based on something YOU said, not me. And then you accused me of being a racist. How many times did I call someone names and insult them in my post?
If this were true, why don't you send your soldiers to war with coffee tables and cutlery then?
Sorry, but it's a lame apologists argument.
First off, I don't send soldiers ANYWHERE. I was out on the protest lines before this war started, I had to run to avoid getting my head beat in by local police saying that it was wrong, hell up until last year I worked cash-only and didn't even pay my income tax, so I didn't even
finance the fucking war except at the gas pump. If you want to attack me for fueling my car, go ahead.
And what exactly did I apologize for? I wasn't trying to apologize. FACT: a loaded gun sitting in a drawer or in a gun safe or even on the coffee table will not kill anyone. A crazy hateful asshole who is obviously deeply disturbed sure as hell will. And that person might use a gun but they might use their bare hands or anything else.
I wasn't trying to piss people off with anything I said. You two are lashing back at me with knee-jerk arguments and overreactions, in my opinion. And that's a shame because it's only my second day here and neither of you know enough about me to warrant the type of accusations you have made.